Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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You are your own stories.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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